For roughly three decades, Tom Petty couldn't quite shake the feeling that he had unfinished business to attend to. Lenahan was swapped out in 1972 for Danny Roberts, and keyboardist Benmont Tench was ...

The moody black-and-white clip, which you can watch above, was directed by actor Sean Penn and Samuel Bayer, the man behind Nirvana's groundbreaking video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit." It stars ...

The post Tom Leadon, Mudcrutch Co-Founder, Dead at 70 appeared first on Consequence. Tom Leadon, a co-founding member of Tom Petty’s original band Mudcrutch, has died at the age of 70. “It is with ...

The recent re-reunion of Mudcrutch, the early-1970s Florida rock band that Tom Petty, guitarist Mike Campbell and keyboardist Benmont Tench played in before they moved to Los Angeles and created the ...

Stories, legends and tales about Tom Petty's pre-Heartbreakers band, Mudcrutch, have made the rounds for decades: how the band threw its own music festivals on - and ultimately got kicked off - the ...

Tom Leadon, a co-founding member of the Tom Petty band Mudcrutch, is dead at the age of 70. Family, friends and band members began sharing news of the guitar legend's death on social media late Monday ...

When Tom Petty strides through the backstage area of Webster Hall, where his bandmates in Mudcrutch and a small gaggle of hangers on are congregating, there's a moment when everything freezes. It's ...

Tom Petty has been using celebrities to get a more cinematic feel for his videos for years; two of the most memorable examples of this are Johnny Depp’s appearance as Eddie in the “Into The Great Wide ...

On May 26 at Denver’s Ogden Theatre, a relatively little-known band called Mudcrutch launched its first-ever full-length tour. Mudcrutch, in addition to holding the title of Worst Band Name Ever, has ...

Earlier this week, we chatted with Tom Petty about the Confederate Flag and his regret over using it as a stage prop back in 1985. But politics weren’t all we discussed. He gave us an update on the ...

Mudcrutch announced Friday that they will release a second album, 2, on May 20. The band, known as a precursor of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, also shared plans for their first-ever national tour, ...

Tom Petty and his Mudcrutch band mates will get a head start on their upcoming U.S. reunion tour with a pair of shows next week in Northridge benefiting L.A.’s century-old Midnight Mission. Mudcrutch ...